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tome

  (tōm) pronunciation
n.
  1. One of the books in a work of several volumes.
  2. A book, especially a large or scholarly one.

[French, from Latin tomus, from Greek tomos, a cutting, section, from temnein, to cut.]


 
 
Thesaurus: tome

noun

    A printed and bound work: book, volume. See words.

 
pronunciation

IN BRIEF: A (usually) large and scholarly book.

pronunciation Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

 
Wikipedia: tome

A tome is a large book, often one volume of a multi-volume scholarly work.

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Common misspelling(s) of tome

  • tiome

 
Translations: Translations for: Tome

Dansk (Danish)
n. - bind af større værk, digert bind

Nederlands (Dutch)
boekdeel

Français (French)
n. - gros volume

Deutsch (German)
n. - Band

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - τόμος

Italiano (Italian)
tomo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - volume (m), tomo (m)

Русский (Russian)
(книжный) том

Español (Spanish)
n. - libraco, volumen, tomo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - stor bok, lunta, diger volym, del, band

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
册, 大型书本, 卷

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 冊, 大型書本, 卷

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 한 권, 크고 방대한 책

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 一巻, 本

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) كتاب كبير, جزء من مجلد من كتاب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כרך עבה, ספר כבד‬


 
 

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